US federal agencies are now involved in an investigation spanning multiple states into an Irish criminal fraud and construction scam gang.

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has returned home to Kilgarvan in Co Kerry, after he was injured during an assault in Dublin yesterday.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut trade with the European Union after the bloc proposed to make Canada its first ever associate member.

The number of vacant social housing units fell to its lowest level in a decade last year, according to figures published by the National Oversight and Audit Commission.

The organisation representing independent providers of home care has said there is an Eircode lottery in access to HSE home care support waiting lists.